How the heir to Black independent cinema’s founding revolution turned an act of cultural insurgency into a durable business model — and why Paris is about to crown him Some names are worn like a crown. Others like an anvil. Mario Van Peebles inherited both. He is the son of the most ungovernable filmmaker America...

Two Academy Awards, a Tony, four decades on screen. And, running quietly underneath all of it, a fifty-year debt that one man has spent his adult life paying back in instalments. This is the documented record of Denzel Washington’s philanthropy — what it funded, whom it changed, what it cost, and where the legend around...

A Franco-Congolese actress trained in Paris, directed by France’s leading stage and screen names, has worked for a Central African production exactly once — on a self-financed film whose technical shortcomings its own director attributes to the absence of funding. The numbers. Two of eleven Central African states operate a film support fund. Regional seed...

Eleven days of cinema, twenty-two films in competition, a jury chaired for the first time in history by a South Korean filmmaker, and, at the end of the red carpet, a Romanian triumph. On Saturday 23 May, the jury of the 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival delivered its verdict, awarding the supreme prize...

Following Iraq in 2025, Rwanda makes its mark on the Croisette. The Caméra d’Or jury, presided over by Monia Chokri, has crowned Marie Clémentine Dusabejambo’s Ben’Imana, a deeply moving work about reconciliation. Chosen from among 30 debut feature films, this drama, presented in the Un Certain Regard section, confirms the powerful emergence of a new...

Cannes 2026 — An opening ceremony of rare precision, carried by an actress who turned the 79th Festival stage into her territory of conquest There are nights when cinema stops being an industry and becomes a temple again. This Tuesday, the Grand Théâtre Lumière didn’t host an opening ceremony. It witnessed a transfiguration. Eye Haïdara...

Blaise Pascal Tanguy, founder of L’Afrique Fait Son Cinéma and the driving force behind LE CLUB, champions a vision rare in the cultural sector: turning Afro-Caribbean cinema into a structured economic sector with its own market infrastructure. On 7 May, at EICAR Paris, he launched the first edition of LE CLUB — a coproduction hub...

Within days of its global premiere, Antoine Fuqua’s “MICHAEL” has officially crossed the symbolic milestone of one million admissions. Far beyond a box-office triumph, the film has established itself as a radical cinematic experience, fueled by a transcendent lead performance and an artistic direction of absolute purity. The Phenomenon: One Million Witnesses to an Eclipse...

The 79th Festival de Cannes opens its doors on May 12, and the Croisette is already buzzing. Unveiled on Thursday, April 9 by artistic director Thierry Frémaux and festival president Iris Knobloch, the 2026 Official Selection received submissions from 141 countries — nearly 2,500 films in total — confirming that the appetite for cinema at...